Inheritance

Till Schäfer till2.schaefer at tu-dortmund.de
Mon Oct 30 21:10:17 CET 2017


Hi, 
the meta-file sounds great. 

However, I do not get it to work or i did get your proposal wrong. "pass show xyz.com" shows only the content of "xyz.com" and not the content of "xyz.com.meta". Thus, just having two sperate files does not realy help for applications that just want a a single entry for all data. 

Regards, 
Till

Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2017, 20:49:40 CET schrieb Tobias Girstmair:
> You could use a symlink containing only your password, and have a meta file containing username and login url for each entry. see the homepage:
> > And yet another approach might be to store the password in Amazon/bookreader and the additional data in Amazon/bookreader.meta.
> I do not know how other interfaces to pass (e.g. browser addon) handle .meta files though
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> Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer at tu-dortmund.de> schrieb am 20:33 Montag, 30.Oktober 2017:
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> Hi,
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> I was wondering if there is any kind of inheritance possible with pass. 
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> Use case: I have several different Domains that all use the same credentials and have a single-sign-on backend. The entries in my passwordstore are named by the domain name. Now I would like to inherit e.g. the common password and login, but change the login url for each entry. 
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> Symlinking already did half the trick, but it is not possible to use different URLs for different domains in this case. 
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> So far I have not found any documented feature like this, but I really would like to see this feature implemented. The main problem so far might be that there is no standard file-format for pass and overriding by keys might actually force some kind of format. However, the de-facto standard already is "key:value" and implementing this feature would actually not hurt other implementations. Of course it would be necessary to introduce another keyword for the inheritance, too (e.g. "inherit ./pass/to/other/entry")
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> What do you think?
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> Regards, 
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> Till
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